Jo Stevens MP, Shadow Minister for Prisons and Probation responding to the report from HMIP said:

“Transforming Rehabilitation has failed and failed spectacularly.

"Labour, probation practitioners, their trade unions and other experts in the field repeatedly warned that Transforming Rehabilitation  would do more harm than good. And we were right.

"How can we possibly break the cycle of reoffending if we are unable to equip and prepare those leaving prison with basics to enable them to have a chance of leading a law abiding life? We are setting them up to fail. The CRC’s ’through the gate’ programme clearly needs complete re-evaluation; it was designed to prepare prisoners for release yet none could provide inspectors with any information on outcomes they have reached for prisoners.

"It’s time for the Tory Government to admit that privatised probation has failed with huge social, and economic consequences and the government has no plan B.”